Dow Jones’ IP Infringed by Professor’s Newsletter, Judge Says

Dow Jones & Company Inc. convinced a federal judge that a professor infringed its copyright when he emailed articles from The Wall Street Journal and Barron to his subscribers as part of a daily newsletter.

Thomas Britton Harris IV, a professor at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, is not protected by a fair use defense since his emails, a consolidation of news articles owned by the plaintiffs, didn’t add anything new to the nature of the articles, Judge David Alan Ezra said in a Tuesday opinion filed in the US District Court for the Western ...